The forest policies of Nigeria: a cursory analysis.

This paper attempted to present the Insights into the policy concept revealed that recognition contents and processes of the forest policies of Nigeria, was given to forestry and forest industries as the including the transition from the older to the current mainstay of the Nigerian economy in the past. [...] Table 3 simply shows a progressive The 1970s marked the prohibition of the export of all increase in area of the forest estate over decades, up to timber products based on the growth of the domestic 1983, when the forest cover attained 10. [...] Area of the Nigerian Forest Estate in At the turn of the century (year 2000 and onwards), and Selected Years with the creation of the Federal Ministry of Environment Year Area (km2) Percentage of (FMEnv), the FDF was ceded from the FMAWR&RD Reserved forest to join the FMEnv. [...] Perhaps the scenario of the 1980s, where the forestry Taking cue from the global arena, the forest policy department was commissioned to produce should continue to recognize the tenure rights of people pulpwood for pulp and paper industries, living in and around forests, and at the same time through establishment of plantations of managing pressures on forestland for agriculture, Gmelina and Pinus. [...] Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Workshop on the Review of the National Conference of the Forestry Association of Forest Policy and the Draft National Forestry Nigeria, Ikeja, Lagos.